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February 16, 2007
February 16th
1531 – Death of Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer
1698 – Birth of Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician
1727 – Birth of Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian scientist
1804 – Birth of Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist
1822 – Birth of Sir Francis Galton, English explorer. biologist, and eugenicist
1834 – Birth of Ernst Haeckel, German zoologist
1937 – Birth of Yuri Manin, Russian mathematician
1980 – Death of Erich Hückel, German physicist
2001 – Death of William Masters, American gynecologist and sexologist
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